Pied Piper of Hamelin
worksheet
Directions: Answer each question with a complete sentence.
Incorporate part of the question into the answer. Best answers use lines from
the poem as support.
- What
is the setting of this metrical tale? (List place, year, and short
description.)
- Summarize
the story in a sentence or two.
- What
is the problem in this narrative poem?
- What
is the one surviving rat’s story? Instead of music, what did he hear?
- After
not being paid, what does the piper do?
- What
is the surviving child’s story? Instead of music, what did he hear?
- Where
do the children go?
- Do the
children ever come home?
- What
is the moral of the story?